Brazil’s Coffee Exporters Council (Cecafé) reported a 29.4% increase in coffee exports in August compared to the same month last year. In August, the country exported 3.67 million bags of coffee. Each bag weighs 60 kilograms. This is a big jump from 2.84 million bags last year. Most of the exported coffee was Arabica, making […]
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